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Senators serve for six-year terms, which are staggered so that elections are held in approximately one-third of the seats (a "class") every second year.

The senator from each state with the longer tenure is known as the "senior senator," and his or her counterpart as the "junior senator"; this convention, however, does not have any special significance.

UnitedStates, although the Senate's advice and consent is required for the appointment of certain executive branch officials, it is not necessary for their removal.

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It is bicameral, comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Senate elections were tainted by corruption, bribery and gridlock preventing the election of a senator.

The State of the Union Address is an annual event in which the President of the UnitedStates reports on the status of the country, normally to a joint session of the U.S. Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate).

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The Senate has 100 seats, one-third are renewed every two years; two members are elected from each U.S. state by popular vote to serve six-year terms.

Each state has equal representation in the Senate because the states are each equal members of the federal union.

The UnitedStates territories are not members of the federal union.

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As put forth in Article I, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, a senator must be: at least 30 years of age, a citizen of the UnitedStates for the past nine years, and reside in the state he or she represents at the time of election.

Control of Senate committees is strictly by seniority within the majority party, a situation which Hubert Humphrey once described as the “most sacred cow in the legislative zoo.” A committee chairman cannot be removed from power even if he is senile or never attends the Senate.

The first session of Senate to be open to the public was held on February 11, 1794 and on February 27, 1986 the Senate allowed its debates to be televised on a trial basis (which was later made permanent).

Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860  February 8, 1936) was a Representative and a Senator from Kansas as well as the 31st Vice President of the UnitedStates.

During his tenure in the Senate, he was President pro tempore of the Senate as well as Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior, of the Committee on Indian Depredations, and of the Committee on Coast Defenses, as well as of the Republican Conference.

He was also UnitedStatesSenateRepublicanWhip from 1915 to 1924 and Majority Leader from 1925 to 1929.

Senator John McLaurin of South Carolina burst into the Senate Chamber on Washington's Birthday in 1902 and accused his fellow South Carolinian, "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman, of a "willful, malicious, and deliberate lie." The ensuing fistfight threw the Senate into chaos and resulted in new Senate rules on decorum and behavior.

As the Senate moved into the twentieth century, gone were many of the "old guards" of the previous century—Republican senators who controlled action in committee and on the floor.

Republicansenators, in the majority in all but four years from 1861 to 1913, used their power of patronage to employ as many Union veterans as possible.

The Constitution of the UnitedStates endows the U.S. Senate, in addition to its duty of passing all legislation through Congress, with the exclusive responsibility of confirming certain President of the United StatesPresidential appointments, including federal judges and UnitedStates Cabinetcabinet secretaries as part of the system of checks and balances.

The agenda of the Senate is determined by the UnitedStatesSenate Majority LeaderMajority floor leader (leader of the party with a majority of seats), who is assisted by a UnitedStatesSenate Majority WhipMajority whip (responsible for "whipping" party members in line).

Unlike the UnitedStates House of Representatives, the Senate has no strict rules regarding debate, and one strategy used by senators to kill a bill is the filibuster (legislative tactic)filibuster/, an intentional extension of debate on the bill, which prevents it from coming to a vote.

The SenateRepublican and Democratic floor leaders are elected by the members of their party in the Senate at the beginning of each Congress.

When several senators are seeking recognition at the same time, the presiding officer in the Senate will call on the majority leader first, then on the minority leader, and then on the managers of the bill being debated, in that order.

RepublicanWhip Mitch McConnell was elected to the post of Republican Leader on November 15, 2006, for the 110th Congress.

Among other responsibilities, he is the chairman of the SenateRepublican Conference, the number three job in the party's leadership.

He was an administrative assistant to PennsylvaniaStateSenator J. Doyle Corman (1981–1986), director of the PennsylvaniaStateSenate local government committee (1981–1984), and director of the PennsylvaniaStateSenate Transportation Committee (1984–1986).

Supporters of the Senator claim that the controversy is politically motivated as the school board is controlled by Democrats and Erin Vecchio, the school board member who first publicly raised the issue, is the chair of the local Democratic Party.

The "offices" of the majority and the minority leader, as we know them today, are of recent development in the history of the Senate although individual Senators since 1789 have assumed leading roles in the determination of what the Senate would or would not do.

The power or influence of some Senators, in various periods of our history, to guide or lead their respective parties, or even the Senate itself, in the determination of a legislative program, has been particularly noteworthy.

These meetings, however, were not invoked to perform as organized political caucuses for the purpose of selecting persons to serve as floor leaders for the parties during the sessions of the Senate until the latter part of the 19th century.

The floor leaders and whips of each party are elected by a majority vote of all the Senators of their party assembled in a conference or, as it sometimes is called, a caucus.

The majority and minority leaders are the elected spokespersons on the Senate floor for their respective political parties.

The positions of the majority and the minority leader, as we know them today, are of recent development in the history of the Senate, although individual Senators since 1789 assumed leading roles in determining the Senate schedule.

The Senate Majority Leader was able to help direct more than $93 million to Nevada for a variety of high-tech programs being developed by the military, UNR, Desert Research Institute, UNLV, and the state's private sector.

on Monday, the Senate will be in a period of morning business until 3:00 p.m., with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each, and with the time equally divided and controlled between the Majority and Minority.

During the week of October 15, the Senate is expected to complete consideration of H.R. and may turn to the consideration of H.R., the Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Act, and any other items cleared for action.

But as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Frank Murkowski became furious at the abusive sweatshop conditions endured by workers, overwhelmingly immigrants, in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, of which Saipan is the capital.

Because they were produced in a territory of the UnitedStates, garments traveled tariff-free and quota-free to the profitable U.S. market and were entitled to display the coveted "Made in the USA" label.

So compelling was the case for change the AlaskaRepublican marshaled that in early 2000, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Murkowski worker reform bill.

2934; To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the UnitedStates Armed Forces.

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The Senate will convene at 9:30 am and resume consideration of the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the UnitedStates.

At 11:30 am the Senate will proceed to a vote on the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the UnitedStates.

Following the vote, the Senate will proceed to consideration of the Defense Appropriations bill.

Remember how pissed off republicans were when Clinton had these 'pseudo-fundraising' guests stay over.

Included was an amendment that said simply, that if a woman has a mastectomy, she and her doctor - and not some insurance company accountant -- should make the decision whether or not she spends the night in the hospital.

We're number one among countries in the United Nations with a legally constituted government to not ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.